Students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school, police say, amid outrage over violence against Christians

Abuja, Nigeria —

Police in Nigeria’s north-central Niger State reported that a group of armed bandits invaded a private Catholic school early on Friday, abducting an unknown number of students from their hostels amid widespread outrage over ongoing concerns about violence against Christians in the West African nation.

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